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SEASON
Shark Tank - Season 1
Shark Tank is an American reality TV show in which entrepreneur-contestants present their business plans to The Sharks - self-made millionaire and billionaire tycoons - who will then choose whether or not to invest in the project. The program provide people from every walk of life a chance to start-up and chase the American dream.
27 September 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 December 1980, Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, USSR
November 01, 2019
The show's look is too inert.
November 01, 2019
There's minimal room for us to empathize because the upshot of each business pitch - either a grim "I'm out'' from each investor or some hastily configured deal - tells us little about whether anyone has actually won or lost.
November 01, 2019
There isn't much action here, and the sniping between the judges - none of whom particularly stand out - seems contrived to drum up what little drama exists on "Shark Tank."
November 01, 2019
Shark Tank may not be for everyone, but business-savvy viewers are likely to find it quite entertaining.
November 01, 2019
The cleverest part of the show is that it makes the judges into contestants; they compete against one another for the right to invest in a business.
November 01, 2019
"Shark Tank" works because the panelists are personable and focused and the format lets them develop personalities.
November 04, 2019
Brisk, sharp and surprisingly emotional for what essentially is a series of venture-capital-investment interviews.
November 01, 2019
So is "Shark Tank" cathartic, or merely depressing? Perhaps appropriately, it's a little of both.
November 04, 2019
Some viewers will find "Shark Tank" entertainingly sadistic; for others, the possibility that it might succeed (seemingly remote) will be a veritable crying shame.
November 04, 2019
Despite the rewarmed concept, the bad set, the cheap voice-over and almost everything else, Mark Burnett still knows how to do one thing really well: Find ordinary people who are uniquely qualified to hold forth in front of the camera.
